Overview of Scopus Custom Data
Last updated on June 24, 2025
Scopus Custom Data is source-neutral abstract and citation data from Scopus. The data is extracted from peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, serials, patents, and conference proceedings. Scopus data grows as new research is made available and currently covers:
- 100+ million journal, book and conference records
- 2+ million preprints
- 7000+ publishers
- 2+ billion cited references
- 19.6+ million author profiles
Available data sets include XML, txt, and csv data. We offer the option to license any one of the following data sets or a combination thereof abstracts, authors, and affiliations.
FAQs
- Integrate data into custom applications and third-party tools that enable search/browse capabilities
- Reveal relationships with semantic enrichment
- Enhance KOL databases for internal use
- Combine Scopus data with other data sources for competitive intelligence dashboards
- SCD can be used for internal purposes exclusively
- SCD can support semantic search capabilities via semantic enrichment
- SCD can populate data networks such as new ontologies or knowledge graphs
- SCD can be used to create predictive models
There is no difference in coverage. Please do note that Scopus.com is updated daily and Scopus Custom Data is updated weekly.
Preprints, Secondary Documents, and Patent links are not included in Scopus Custom Data.
The Data for Research and Discovery Support team is available to assist with general onboarding, troubleshooting, documentation, and data interpretation questions. This team does not provide customer analysis of Elsevier data structures, recommendations on whether data is sufficient to meet project outcomes, or scoping level of effort/estimates on data clean up and integration steps.
The Professional Services team is available for add-on services such as data integration with customer/third party data, custom workflows and dashboards, and custom reports. Please contact your Account Manager or Customer Consultant for more information about add-on services.
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